Ecumenical Genoide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Amasya Administration The Ottoman sancak Amasya consisted of seven kazas: Amasya, Merzifon/Marzvan, Ladik, Havza, Vezirköprü, Gümüşhaciköy, and Mecidözü. Amasya, 1920 (source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/3542/amasya-1920#lg=0&slide=0) Population “The sancak of Amasia, with its roughly 200,000 inhabitants, including 31,717 Armenians and 39,676 Greeks, was on the eve of the First World War an extraordinary museum of the customs of the native populations of Asia Minor.”[1] According to the Armenian Patriarch Malachia Ormanian, there lived 25,000 Armenian Apostolic Christians in the sancak of Amasya, 2,000 Catholic and 500 Armenians.[2] In his analytical census, Dimosthenis Ikonomidis (Oeconomidis) put the pre-war number of Orthodox Greeks in the sancak [...]
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Kaza Niksar / Νεοκαισάρεια – Neokaisareia / Նեոկեսարիա – Neokesaria
Toponym Niksar has been identified with the ancient town Cabira or Kabeira (Grk.: τὰ Κάβειρα) of Pontos. It was also called Diospolis, Sebaste, and Neocaesaea (Neokaisareia) during the Roman period. Citadel of Niksar History Niksar has been ruled by the Hittite, Persian, Greek, Pontic, Roman, Byzantine, Danishmend, Seljuk and Ottoman Empires. It was known as Cabira in the Hellenistic period (Κάβειρα in Greek), being one of the favorite residences of Mithridates VI (the Great), who built a palace there, and later of King Polemon I and his successors. In 72 or 71 B.C., the Battle of Cabira during the Third Mithridatic War took place at Cabira, [...]
Kaza Zile – Ζήλε / Զելա – Zela
Located on a high hill with a citadel, south of Amasya, in the upper reaches of the Iris River, Zela was a city in Armenia Minor (Lesser Armenia). Toponym and History The ancient name of the kaza’s administrative seat was Zela. Here the Roman general Gaius Iulius Caesar defeated the Pontian ruler Pharnaces II (97-47 B.C.) on 20 May 47 B.C. (according to the Julian calendar) in the Battle of Zela that lasted only four hours and sent to Rome the advertising victory message “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I won”) that is still known today. These three words are [...]
Kaza Erbaa
Toponym Erbaa means ‘four’ in Arabic. According to the official records of the Ottoman Empire, this name started to be used beginning from the early 18th century. The original full name was Nevahi-i Erbaa, ‘the four Nahiyes’. This name originated in 1848, when Herek (Erek), Karayaka, Sonisa (Reşadiye-Uluköy) and Taşabad (Taşova) were united into a common judicial district (nahiye). Erbaa (source: http://www.eskiturkiye.net/2620/erbaa-tokat#lg=0&slide=0) Christian Population According to the census of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople, there lived 6,948 Armenians in nine localities of the kaza of Erbaa, maintaining 6 churches and two schools with an enrolment of 460 pupils.[1] “Half of the kaza’s Armenians lived [...]
Kaza Tokat / Τοκάτη – Tokati / Եւդոկիա – Evdokia / Κάζοβα – Kazova
Ecumenical Genocide Memorial, Berlin: Commemorative Plate for Tokat Toponym During the Byzantine era the city of Tokat was known as Evdokiada (Gr: Eυδοκιάδα). This toponym goes back to the daughter Evdokia of its founder, the Byzantine emperor Herakleios (610-641), abbreviated Dokia (Gr: Δόκεια). It was also referred to as Tokation (Grk.: Τοκάτιον). During Ottoman times the name Tokat was the name of the kaza and sancak which the town was situated in.[1] The kaza was also known as Kazova. Christian Population Before the First World War, there lived 17,480 Armenians in 18 localities of the kaza of Tokat. They maintained 17 churches, two monasteries and [...]